Need for Cognition, Causal Processing, and Memory for Behavior

Autor:	Michael A. Briggs, R. David Slaw, G. Daniel Lassiter
Rok vydání:	1991
Předmět:	Need for cognition Social Psychology Recall 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Proposition Path analysis (statistics) Psychology Attribution Social psychology 050105 experimental psychology Cognitive psychology
Zdroj:	Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 17:694-700
ISSN:	1552-7433 0146-1672
DOI:	10.1177/0146167291176013
Popis:	Previous research by Srull, Lichtenstein, and Rothbart has shown that individuals high in the need for cognition exhibit better recall for a target person's behaviors than individuals low in the need for cognition, particularly when those behaviors are inconsistent with an initial impression of the person. The present authors argue that this pattern of results is due in part to the fact that high- (relative to low-) need-for-cognition individuals are likely to engage in more extensive causal processing. Study I directly tested and supported the proposition that a higher need for cognition is indeed associated with a tendency toward greater explanatory thinking. Study 2 replicated this finding as well as the pattern of recall results reported by Srull and colleagues. Most important, a path analysis indicated, as hypothesized, that recall performance was mediated in part by amount of explanatory thinking. Implications of these data for research on need for cognition, attribution, and person memory are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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